Surpassing expectations, the BJP along with ally Apna Dal (Soney Lal) bagged nine out of the 12 assembly seats in this large and volatile district, decimating the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance, which won on one seat, while the BSP's tally fell from three to two.
The BJP, which had kept nine seats for itself, ended up winning eight of them, while its ally Apna Dal bagged one out of the three it had contested.
Allahabad has the largest number of assembly seats for any single district across Uttar Pradesh. All the three seats covering the city -- Allahabad (West), Allahabad (South) and Allahabad (North) -- were won by comprehensive margins.
Harshvardhan Bajpai, who quit the BSP less than a year ago to join the BJP, defeated sitting two-time Congress MLA Anugrah Narain Singh by 35,000 votes.
In Allahabad (West), which the BJP had never won in its nearly four-decade-long history, party national secretary Siddharth Nath Singh defeated Samajwadi Party's Richa Singh by over 25,000 votes.
Two-time MLA Pooja Pal finished third.
Allahabad (South) was wrested back for the BJP by Nand Gopal Gupta "Nandi" who thrashed sitting SP MLA Parvez Ahmed by 29,000 votes.
Ironically, the seat had been won for record five times between 1989 and 2002 by veteran BJP leader Keshri Nath Tripathi whose winning streak ended in 2007 when Nandi grabbed the seat contesting as a BSP candidate.
In trans-Ganga region, the BJP pulled off a sensational victory in Koraon (SC), where Rajmani defeated nearest rival Ram Kripal, a CPM leader-turned-Congressman, by close to 55,000 votes.
Sitting BSP MLA Rajbali Jaisal finished third.
In neighboring Bara, another reserved seat, Ajay Kumar defeated the SP candidate by 34,000 votes and registered his second consecutive win.
In 2012, he had won the seat as an SP nominee but resigned and joined the BJP in October last year upon Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's reluctance to give him a party ticket.
In Meja, a rural Brahmin-dominated seat, jailed ex-MLA
Uday Bhan Karwaria's wife Neelam defeated her nearest SP rival by about 20,000 votes.
Karachhana was the sole seat in trans-Yamuna, which the BJP-led alliance lost as SP candidate and former MLA Ujjwal Raman Singh wrested it back after having tasted defeat in two consecutive assembly polls.
The BSP, which had won it on the trot in 2002 and2007, finished third, well behind the BJP.
In trans-Ganga, Apna Dal's Jamuna Prasad won Soraon by a comfortable margin of 18,000 votes amid anxieties caused by BJP's Surendra Kumar throwing his hat in the ring and failing to withdraw his nomination in time.
Kumar polled only 6,522 votes.
The BJP ally, however, lost Handia and Pratappur to the BSP.
BJP won Phaphamau defeating sitting SP MLA Ansar Ahmed by 26,000 votes.
The SP had won eight seats in the district in the 2012 polls, but was unable to retain any of these this time.
The BSP, too, has failed to retain any of the three seats held by it.
It has suffered a major slump since 2007 when it had won eight out of the 11 assembly seats falling in the district at that time.
